The furies of war are described as rising out of a very pagan hell.
Unhappily this accident followed the ancient tendency by which the Furies and Vices have, with scandalous constancy, been described in the feminine gender.
In telling the story Carlyle remarks that these 'Ten Virgins at Eisenach are more fatal to warlike men than AEschylus' Furies at Athens were to weak women.
The Furies were portrayed bearing serpents in their hands, and each of these might carry ideally the terrors of Apophis: Time also is a detective, and the guilty heard it saying, 'Your sin will find you out.
Here Catiline hung from the rock while the Furies pursued him; there Cato gave the people laws.
And in the midst Mars was seen to rage, embossed in steel; and the Furies hovered above, and Discord stalked with garment rent, while high above Apollo stretched his bow, and Egyptian and Indian and Arab fled before him.
And Aeneas offered a black lamb to the Furies and a barren heifer to the Queen of hell, smiting them with his sword.
But at the last moment, when the invisible vulture is about to stifle me under its wings, someone lifts me up, and the pursuit of the furies is at an end.
The invisible furies pursue their prey up to the very gates of the city of refuge--religion.
May bend to better counsels; noblest minds Are easiest bent; and o'er superior age Thou know'st th' avenging Furies ever watch.
The guilty souls were always intrusted to the three snake-locked Furies (Erinnyes, or Eumenides), who drove them with their stinging lashes to the gates of Tartarus.
Yes, yes, you will doubtless have to bury her, for your love kills and consumes; you have devoted her to the furies and it is she who appeases them.
It lives, a spirit passes into it; The avengingfuries seize possession of it, And with sure malice, guide it the worst way.
Thus will I work my battery of death, stroke after stroke, upon his fragile body, until the troop of furies close upon him with Despair!
While the furies of war on the Danube now fare And Bavaria's bulwark is lying full low, And Ratisbon's fast in the clutch of the foe.
This is the curse Of kings, that they, divided, tear the world In pieces with their hatred, and let loose The raging furies of all hellish strife!
What a hell full of furies hovers around that word.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
